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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
There is a very large difference between, on the one hand, believing in some sort of guilt by association due to belonging to the same religion, and, on the other hand, believing religious leaders should condemn the actions of those who perpetrated the crime. I agree that religious leaders need to condemn the actions of these people. However, I do not, for a single moment, believe people completely unrelated to the actions should apologize simply because they happen to belong to the same religion. The latter was what I thought Rerun was asking for, but he clarified that he was not.
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Agreed and understood, but I was taking that ball and running with it in a slightly different direction.